Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-12-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Let US love life and feel the value
Of it, that we may I'LL it with Christ
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The Wesleyans Of England report
in Hayti missionaries, Il local
preachers, 95S full members
| The Wesleyans of England report
in the Bahamas 9 missionaries, 1O3
local preachers, S,6Ol full members
and loss Sunday-scnool scholars.
1t is hard to say whether God dis
covers more love in preparing Heaven
" mansions for the soul than in pre-
pairing the soul for Heavenly mansions.
Seeker.
The Presbyterian church in Cam
ada has on the Island of Trinidad s
stations with missionaries, 8 cate
chists. 6 teachers. 265 communicates,
and 1875 scholarS-Pubiic Opinion.
Our prayers should not be that
God would change His will with
reference to our trials or responsible
tiles. but that He would give us strength
to follow out His purpose in them.
The secret of true Christian living is
in this thought.-Rer. Philip Brooks.
Nearly thousand millions of tho
human race are yet without the Gospel;
vast districts are wholly unoccupied.
So few are the laborers that, if equally
dividing responsibility. each must care
for one hundred thousand souls. And
yet there is abundance of both men
and means in the church to give the
Gospel to every living soul before this
century closes. Christian .ddrocate.
Plymouth Church. Minneapolis. is
enlarging several lines of its mission
airy work. In its Bethel Mission there
are two daily kindergarten schools
with four teachers. day nursery and
dispensary. sewing school, besides
the Sabbath school and evangelistic
services. The young men are about
to establish new mission, including q
Sunday-school and preaching service.
reaiing-room. cotfee-room, and an
Industrial school for boys. The church
contributes large share of the sup
port to the regular city mission
Christian Union.
Freshman Cilley. who recently
placed his class flag on the spire Of
Bowdoin College chapel. is son of
General e. P. Cilley. of Rockland.
Me-. and grandson of Congressman
Cilley, who lost his life in duel. He
is quiet young fellow. wears glasses.
and looks more like divinity student
than an athlete; but his muscles are like
steel. and his nerve is good. The spire
that he climbed is 116 feet in height,
and in coming down he slipped 10
! feet, but held on. at the cost of much
of the skin and flesh of the palms of
his hands. one of which he carried in a
sling for Chicago Times.
In China there are among the diff
ferent Protestant denominations sew
enty-nine persons who devote them
selves chiefly to medical work.
Twenty-seven are women. There has
been issued by their Medical Mission
airy Association the first number of a
medical journal. whose columns con-
tain valuable papers from native and
foreign physicians of high standing.
The articles by the Chinese doctors
themselves Christians-in the Chinese
language will have wide influence
among their countrymen in removing
the prejudice against foreign ply
sicians. -Pu6lic Opinion.
"A certain Oxford professor some
: years ago was captured by brigands
|, near Damascus, but the mild-mannered
benevolence of his appearance excited
the pity of his custodians. Instead Of
demanding a ransom from the vice.
chancellor they merely stripped their
captive of his clothes, and considerable
ly leaving him hat, a pair of boots
and pair of spectacles to cover his
nakedness, bound him on the back Of
an ass, with his face to the tail, and
drove him back to the town from
which he had too hastily started.
Freshmen invited to meet the profess
sor at the breakfast table are inva-
riably instructed by their seniors to
inquire whether he has been to Damas-
Gus, and what he thinks of that great
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